About That 2007 Obama Speech In Virginia

I always knew Barack Obama was unconstrained by little things like truth, but I hadn't realized the audacity of his departures from it until I read Andrew McCarthy's post-debate analysis in National Review.  To illustrate how Obama's 2012 campaign isn't going quite so well as his 2008 campaign, McCarthy brought up that video of an Obama 2007 campaign speech in Virginia that recently resurfaced.  My emphasis in the text below.

It was from 2007 in Virginia: Senator Barack Obama, presidential stars in his eyes, speaking to a largely black audience of religious leaders and inciting racial animus.

To be generous, Obama’s performance is disgusting. Cynically adopting the black dialect of the American South, a dialect utterly alien to him, he demagogues against Washington’s supposedly selective waivers of the Stafford Act — legislation that requires communities hit by disasters to match 10 percent of federal aid. They waived it for 9/11, he tells the crowd, and they waived it when Hurricane Andrew hit Florida: Those communities were allowed to keep their one dollar for every ten federal dollars. But when he comes to Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the largely African-American population of New Orleans, Obama implies that Congress refused the waiver: “What’s happenin’ down in New O’leans? Where’s yo’ dollar? Where’s yo’ Stafford Act money? . . . Tells me that somehow the people down in New O’leans they don’t care about as much.”

In fact, ten days before Obama gave that speech, Congress had waived the Stafford Act requirement for Katrina. He was well aware of that fact, too. After all, he was one of only 14 senators to vote against the waiver. It was part of a bill to fund the war effort in Iraq. That is, to pander to his Bush-deranged, anti-war base, Obama decided that squeezing New O’leans was a price worth paying. Then, he lied about what happened in order to foment racial resentment — an atmosphere that he calculated would help his presidential bid.

Turns out Obama was one of only a few who didn't care so much about the people down in New Orleans.  The things you can get away with when you've got the liberal media on your side.  It's just amazing.